Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity.
How precisely to understand and evaluate counterfactuals can be an intricate issue. The aim of this article is to examine a new set of difficulties for evaluating counterfactuals that arise in the context of the dynamical spacetimes described by the theory of general relativity (GR). The initial val...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 1111 - 1129 |
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University of Chicago Press
Dec2021
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